A Daily Walk With DietPower

Walking is the best exercise for weight loss. And the things you see!

I found this beautifully made stainless-steel object lying on a dirty snowbank across the street from the King Street Church today. It turned out to be a six-inch folding knife with a pocket clip. I guessed that it might have fallen from a truck rounding the corner from King onto South King. The clip is labeled "kershaw," and the opposite side bears the name Ken Onion.

When I got home, I did some googling and discovered that Ken Onion is a famous American knife designer whose exotic creations are highly prized by collectors. Some of his custom works cost thousands of dollars.

This mass-market model, from his Leek series (get it?), features a patented technology called SpeedSafe that lets a user open the knife swiftly but safely with either hand—making it a cross between a traditional pocket knife and a switchblade.
It retails for $69.95.

Anyone who appreciates fine design and craftsmanship enough to pay seventy bucks for a pocket knife deserves to keep it. If you know the person who's missing this gem,
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About this page: Every day, without fail, I step out of my office for a 3.5-mile walk around my Connecticut neighborhood. I carry a Panasonic Lumix DMC-TX5 pocket camera with a Leica 10x optical zoom lens. My object is to make an interesting photograph of at least one thing that is different that day. I post the results here, hoping they will inspire you and your friends to walk, too. —Terry Dunkle, DietPower founder and CEO.

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